Untitled

Northland Age, Volume 8, Issue 2, 12 October 1938, Page 8

Radio police on horseback were introduced as a feature of this year’s Grand National Steeplechase in England. Along - the course mounted officers were equipped with midget receiving and transmitting sets, keeping them in constant touch with headquarters and patrol cars. ☆ ☆ ☆ The British Land Settlement Association has acquired 25 estates since it began in 1934, which are to provide 1500 small holdings. Already 3500 people are living on the estates and 600 have achieved financial independence. A man is taken from the depressed areas, given three months’ trial and if he is thought promising his wife and family join him, he completes his training and is given financial assistance until he is self-support-ing. ☆ ☆ ☆ j There will be no attempt to boycott the New Zealand and Australian

wool markets next season by buyers from the United Kingdom and other countries following the dispute about the abolition of the draft allowance. This is an act of grace, “in view of the great need for all sections of the wool industry to pull together to face the important world problems confronting the industry today.” ☆ ☆ ☆ An elephant has been buried with Buddist rites at Ceylon. ☆ ☆ ☆ Retui-ixing to Britain recently from the United States, Sir James Irvine told reporters it would be a good idea if men of science went on strike as a protest against the use of their discoveries to take life. “Our researches should be used for the benefit of mankind,” he said, “but people continue to put them to evil uses.” ☆ ☆ ☆ Prof. Arnold Lorand, -of Carlsbad,

the eminent consultant on medical problems, says that he is amazed to find in the great number of women coining to consult him, once famous all over Europe for their beauty, that they have in a few short years, because of cigarette smoking, become prematurely old. * ☆ * Reports that Japan intended to dedare war on China were indignantly denied by Japan’s new Foreign Minister, General Ngaki. “It would be impossible for Japan to declare war,” he said, “unless she denounced the peace pacts, such as the Kellogg Pact and the Nine-Power Treaty, by which she is at present bound.”